Habeas Corpus - Second Circuit Orders - February 2011

Issues: (1) whether the admission of Appellant’s first confession violated Miranda; (2) whether the prosecutor’s failure to disclose exculpatory information regarding prior bad acts of a prosecution witness violated Brady; and (3) whether Appellant received IAC based on counsel’s failure to request a jury instruction permitting the jury to disregard appellant’s first confession if they found that it was involuntarily made

Issues: whether the trial court violated appellant's constitutional rights to a fair trial and to present a defense by failing to: (1) charge a justification defense; (2) permit appellant to introduce evidence to support a justification defense, and (3) permit Appellant to introduce his exculpatory statements that he had shot the victim in self-defense, while allowing the State to introduce testimony that might imply that appellant had made no statements to that effect